Venn's Trail: Venn's Fate

Venn's Trail: Venn's Fate is the 4th quest in The Lost Seekers story arcStory arcs are chains of quests that make up a story line. Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward..
The Kobold's Den: Clan Gnashtooth • The Kobold's Den: Rescuing Arlos • Venn's Trail: Clan Tunnelworm • Venn's Trail: Venn's Fate

To be taken prisoner by Clan Tunnelworm is little better than a death sentence.

Venn's Trail: Venn's Fate
Heroic level:	4
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Medium
Heroic XP:	♣496Solo/Casual ♦888Normal ♥949Hard ♠1,009Elite
Epic XP:	N/A
Takes place in:	Clan Tunnelworm Prison
Bestowed by:	Guard Tember
NPC contact:	Guard Tember
Quest acquired in:	The Harbor
Patron:	The Coin Lords
Base favor:	3
Purchase:	Free to Play
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Part 4 of The Lost Seekers story arc.

Search Clan Tunnelworm's prison for Venn ar-Kerran.

Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!

Objectives

Find Venn ar-Kerran
Avenge Venn by killing the Tunnelworm Interrogator
(Optional) Free Tunnelworm's other prisoners - 5 total — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣99 ♦178 ♥190 ♠202 )
(Optional) Kill the Scorpions - 5 total — Bonus (30%): Heroic( ♣149 ♦266 ♥285 ♠303 )
(Optional) Kill Clan Tunnelworm's Grand Shaman — Bonus (25%): Heroic( ♣124 ♦222 ♥237 ♠252 )
(Optional) Slay Kruts the Cruel — Bonus (25%): Heroic( ♣124 ♦222 ♥237 ♠252 )
(Optional) Slay Murat the Maniacal — Bonus (25%): Heroic( ♣124 ♦222 ♥237 ♠252 )
(Optional) Slay Haarg the Harrowing — Bonus (25%): Heroic( ♣124 ♦222 ♥237 ♠252 )

What to Expect

Randomly placed NPCs (mandatory: Venn and optional: 5 prisoners)

Known Traps

Trap DCs

Blade trap in the north-west corner room (with the Black Wolves). Control panel is just inside the room on the left wall.

Tips and Misc

The objective of this quest is to find Venn ar-Kerran, the second of the ar-Kerran brothers. You must search through all of the cells to try to find him. You will also find five other prisoners that you can free for bonus XP. Talking to them about Venn will reveal that the Tunnelworms put Venn to torture soon after his arrival, and that his screams stopped several days ago. They tell you that you may not find Venn alive now, and unfortunately enough, when you do find Venn's cell, you learn that it's too late for him – all that remains of him is his corpse.

Venn's body can be in any cell, so every time that you repeat this adventure, you must search through the entire area again. Keep a careful eye out for his corpse; Q (the default key for selecting interactables) is your friend.

Once you've found Venn, all that remains is to find the Tunnelworm Interrogator responsible for Venn's death and make him pay. The torture chamber where the Interrogator awaits is the northernmost room on the east side, and should be fairly easy to find. You can actually kill the Interrogator before finding Venn, but you will have to search all the cells anyway for Venn's body.

Since you are going to have to search everywhere anyway, you will quickly learn the map. Keep a high spotter on point for the blade trap in the northwestern portion of the map. Watch out for the Ogres in this dungeon, as they hit hard, especially when they rage. The Tunnelworm Grand Shaman is in the easternmost room to the north of the dungeon in general. You can also head to the southernmost area of the dungeon, where you will meet a terrified prisoner and fight five Large Monstrous Scorpions (which oddly enough look about the same as Medium Monstrous Scorpions) for bonus XP and loot.

Once you've found Venn's body and killed the Tunnelworm Interrogator, you can finish out of the quest and collect your rewards from Tember and Zin.

You can enter this quest immediately from the previous one, or break to restock or sell loot in between.
Venn's corpse will show up in a random cell. It looks like a zombie laying down, and can be easy to miss.
The blade trap can be easily avoided just by sticking to the edge of the room.
The Tunnelworm Interrogator can be found in the northeast corner. Even if you haven't found Venn's body, or had a prisoner tell you 'you may not find him alive now' yet, you're still instructed to 'avenge' him.
The Grand Shaman can be found in the eastern room of the middle east–west corridor.
Kruts the Cruel can be found in the southwest corner.
Haarg the Harrowing can be found in the eastern room of the northern east–west corridor. The warning gong has to be rung to open his door, either by the kobolds in front, or by a player.
Murat the Maniacal can be found in the northwest corner.
A Terrified Prisoner can be found in the southernmost section; talking to him will spawn five scorpions that you then have to kill.

Bonus XP

Discreet bonus: 12 or fewer monsters killed +5% Bonus.( ♣25 ♦44 ♥47 ♠50 )
Aggression bonus: 33 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣50 ♦89 ♥95 ♠101 )
Onslaught bonus: 43 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣74 ♦133 ♥142 ♠151 )
Conquest bonus: 53 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣124 ♦222 ♥237 ♠252 )
Mischief bonus: 33 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣40 ♦71 ♥76 ♠81 )
Vandal bonus: 43 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣50 ♦89 ♥95 ♠101 )
Ransack bonus: 53 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣74 ♦133 ♥142 ♠151 )

Loot

Chests: 3–6
- 1 for killing the Tunnelworm Interrogator (Kobold, found in the northeast corner)
- 1 optional for killing the Tunnelworm Grand Shaman (Kobold, found in the eastern room of the middle east–west corridor)
- 1 optional for killing the scorpions in the south central room
- 1 optional for killing Murat the Maniacal (Ogre, doesn't always spawn, found in the northwest corner)
- 1 optional for killing Kruts the Cruel (Ogre, doesn't always spawn, found in the southwest corner)
- 1 optional for killing Haarg the Harrowing (Ogre, doesn't always spawn, found in the eastern room of the northern east–west corridor)
Collectables: Five
- Mushroom in a cell just to the east at the first T-junction
- Mushroom in a cell just before the Grand Shaman's room
- Adventurer's Pack in the northwest room
- Mushroom in a cell just south of the western shrine
- Rubble in the scorpion room
NPC rewards: Mixed random and special
- See Unique Quest Rewards: The Lost Seekers

Monsters

Name ^{( picture )}	CR	Type	Race
Black Wolf ^{( view • edit )}	♦3Normal ♥5Hard ♠8Elite	Animal	Wolf
Haarg the Harrowing ^{( view • edit )}	♥5Hard ♠8Elite	Giant	Ogre
Kobold Shaman ^{( view • edit )}	♦1Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Kobold Thrower ^{( view • edit )}	♦1Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Kobold Warrior ^{( view • edit )}	♦0.5Normal ♥2Hard ♠5Elite ●♦28Epic Normal ●♥33Epic Hard ●♠63Epic Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Kruts the Cruel ^{( view • edit )}	♠8Elite	Giant	Ogre
Large Monstrous Scorpion ^{( view • edit )}	♦3Normal ♥5Hard ♠8Elite	Vermin	Scorpion
Murat the Maniacal ^{( view • edit )}	♦3Normal ♥5Hard ♠8Elite	Giant	Ogre
Ogre ^{( view • edit )}	♦3Normal ♥5Hard ♠8Elite	Giant	Ogre
Rotting Zombie ^{( view • edit )}	♦2Normal ♥4Hard ♠7Elite ●♦7Epic Normal	Undead	Zombie
Skeleton Swordsman ^{( view • edit )}	♦2Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠45Epic Elite	Undead	Skeleton
Tunnelworm Grand Shaman ^{( view • edit )}	♦3Normal ♥5Hard ♠8Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Tunnelworm Interrogator ^{( view • edit )}	♦2Normal ♥5Hard ♠8Elite	Reptilian	Kobold

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